Happy to share as this illustrates the arbitrary nature of other rules given the McKelvey Rule's perfect track record.

Critical note: The payroll revisions which revealed 192,000 job losses in Q3 2023 MESH w/Rule given it was triggered THREE MONTHS into 1973 and 1981 recessions.

Sweden follows the Swiss National Bank last month as the second G10 country to ease, citing weak economic activity. Who's next? riksbank.se/en-gb/press-an…

jugglingdynamite.com/2024/05/08/can… Canada feeling the burn of high debt and weakening employment
The Nanos Pocketbook Index, a component of the broader Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Confidence Index and a measure of how Canadians perceive their personal finances and job security, fell to ...

Canada's 10 year bond price reaches April's resistance with some mojo...

jugglingdynamite.com/2024/05/07/ret… Rethinkx: simultaneous mass disruptions now unfolding
In the fifteen years between 1907 and 1922, horses went from providing 95% of all private vehicle miles travelled on American roads to less than 20% (see chart below). But since cars travel a far...

Amory Lovins: We've barely scratched the surface of how energy efficiency can help the energy transition.
switchedon.reneweconomy.com.au/content/weve-b…

Trump was just participating in a very sophisticated real estate practice known as 'lying'

“EV sales are down.”

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'The world’s corporations produce so much climate change pollution, it could eat up about 44% of their profits if they had to pay damages for it, according to a study by economists of nearly 15,000 public companies.' apnews.com/article/climat…

Look at the difference between renewables-plus and nuclear.

>>BP paid $2 million for Princeton's Net Zero America study, according to new Senate report. budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
>>The study recommended that the US prioritize investment in CCS.
>>IIJA & IRA subsequently enacted, massively expanding CCS subsidies
>>BP to get billions $$$

Good morning with good news. BYD April 2024 sales skyrocketed:

BEVs: 134,465 (up 29%)
PHEVs: 177,583 (up 69%)
Total: 312,048 (up 49%)

BYD could sell ~4 million EVs out of 2024 global total 17 million. EVs will be about 1 in 5 cars sold globally in 2024!
insideevs.com/news/718208/by…

Another paper finds Australia's electricity grid can go to 100% #WindWaterSolar 24/7/365 with no gimmicks

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Derek Abbott PNAS Nexus
Prof. Peter Strachan Christian Breyer 🦣 Brian Vad Mathiesen 🇩🇰🇺🇦 Robert Howarth Dr. Sven Teske Claudia Kemfert 💧simon holmes à court Prof Ray Wills Beyond Zero Emissions

As a result of a Canadian subsidy scheme, the oil major was able to register 5.7mn credits that had no equivalent CO₂ reductions, selling some to top oil sands groups on.ft.com/4a9vRFE

jugglingdynamite.com/2024/05/06/chi… China exporting deflation to the world
China’s economy is teetering on the brink of widespread deflation—a scenario that could cause even more problems than high inflation. We look at Japan’s “lost decade” to explain why China’s economy is strugglin...

'Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to [carbon capture and storage] that never took place'

Selling emissions credits for reductions that never happened from a technology that doesn't work (and pocketing the profits) must be peak greenwashing

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Using a gas stove increases nitrogen dioxide exposure to levels that exceed public health recommendations.

theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Air pollution from gas and propane stoves has caused about 50,000 current cases of childhood asthma nationwide, and people living in smaller homes are more likely to be affected: new study released Friday from researchers at Stanford & Harvard

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Shell sold millions of ‘phantom’ carbon credits on.ft.com/3WL7efx

In 3 yrs this #solar installation at a Arkansas high school turned the district budget from a $250K deficit to a $1.8 million surplus. They're using the surplus to pay teachers more.

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